Sentence examples for an oppressive power from inspiring English sources

Its unthinking, anti-establishment, mindset instinctively fights against "the system" as if "officialdom" was always an oppressive power.

Why is the image of Babylon so powerful to you?Well, I'm sure you know that for Rastafarians it simply means an oppressive power structure.

When confronted with an oppressive power that was restricting freedom at home and shaming Britain abroad, all the main parties committed themselves to libel reform.

The liberating power was, in short order, to become an oppressive power, as has happened not once but many times in history.

When a full name is tapped into Google's search engine – out of personal curiosity, or for the purposes of professional scrutiny – the results that pop up can wield an oppressive power.

Soviet policy was not especially friendly to Jews, but it was obviously better than a Holocaust". The liberating power was, in short order, to become an oppressive power, as has happened not once but many times in history.

It soon becomes the setting for a strange, oppressive power struggle between mother and daughter.

The philosopher Theodor Adorno also argued that mass culture was an instrument of oppressive power.

Crucifixion combines torture and death and produces the spectacle of pain that warned others not to resist, a specific form of oppressive power at which the Romans so excelled.

The usual response to the climate challenge is, instead, a polarizing politics which pits a victimized people against evil, oppressive power.

Aviv notes that scholars have interpreted the hysterical women of the late nineteenth century as symbols of the oppressive power of a misogynist system medical rebels against the patriarchy.